PIA announces Product of Excellence Awards Now Accepting Entries
For over three decades, the Binding Industries Association’s annual Product of Excellence awards recognized outstanding examples of craftsmanship. Winning a Product of Excellence award tells your customers and prospects that the work your company produces is among the very best. A Competitive Advantage Winning can set you apart from the competition and secure new business. Winning companies […]
SGP Partnership expands certification to postpress
The Sustainable Green Printing (SGP) Partnership officially expands its certification program to include binding, finishing and looseleaf (BFLL) operations in the graphic communications industry. By including the BFLL community in the certification program, SGP offers this sector a clear definition of sustainability with the certification criteria and a method to demonstrate it in their operations. […]
Binding Industries of America Announces Product of Excellence Winners
The Binding Industries Association (BIA) has announced the 2010 Product of Excellence Awards (POE) winners. From around the world, binding companies submitted their finest and technically flawless work to the competition. The POE award is considered by many to be the highest honors in the binding industry and winners are acknowledged as a shining example […]
Heidelberg USA and PIAG to Host “Check It Out” and “FoldMania” Workshops on June 22
Heidelberg USA’s Print Media Academy, in conjunction with the Educational Foundation of the Printing and Imaging Association of Georgia, will host “Check it Out”, a free prepress, press and bindery check essential skills workshop for print buyers and printers, on June 22 from 9 a.m. until noon. Then following is a second session, “FoldMania,” a […]
SGP postpress certification criteria open to public comment
The Sustainable Green Printing Partnership (Loveland, OH) announces the opening of a public comment period for the Binding, Finishing and Loose Leaf (BFLL) Certification Criteria document. This document will provide a mechanism to integrate SGP’s new BFLL and its existing Printer criteria into a single certification document for operations in the United States and Canada. […]
RR Donnelley to Produce Digitally Printed Books for Penguin Group Using Inkjet Presses
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company (NASDAQ:RRD) today announced an agreement with Penguin Group (USA) Inc. to provide the majority of its digital printing and binding requirements. Under the terms of the agreement RR Donnelley will produce Penguin Group (USA)’s digitally printed adult and young readers’ trade hardcover, trade paperback, mass market paperback books, bound galleys […]
Standard Finishing Systems' Partners to Premier New Technologies and Set World Records at Ipex
Standard Finishing Systems’ partners Horizon and Hunkeler will demonstrate a broad portfolio of new postpress and paper handling solutions—including a slate of first-ever showings and a world record for folding speed—throughout the halls of Ipex 2010 in Birmingham, England, May 18-25. A range of tightly-integrated feeding and finishing solutions for the high-speed continuous-feed digital print […]